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trust and win back for gas users
$9,800,000 of overcharges. Sergei
said the law wouldn't let him pay the
i money. Sergei is known to have had
a hot personal clash with Richberg,
in which Richberg pointed out to Ser
jgel that he might be honest-as day
1 light, but he was acting like a dummy
of the gas trust
It is yet to be seen whether Sergei's
lawyer, Thome, by looking further
and further into the law will be able
t find that the law is on the side of
the gas users and against the People's
Gas Light & Coke Co.
AM. Merriam, back from vacation,
today challenged Pres. Coffin and the
civil service board to take up charges
of State's Att'y Hoyne that the police
department, even to the staff of
Chief Healey, is not what it ought to
'be.
"Let them take up methods and ac
tivities of the detective bureau,"
isays Merriam. "The crime commit
tee's plan will go a long way toward
rendering life and property in Chica
go more secure. The chief of police
5s entitled to a reasonable time to be
gin work, but at the end of that time
there must be an accounting."
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GIRL HELD CAPTIVE IN SHACK,
SAYS NOTE MYSTERY
A mystery which savors strongly
9i crime came to the police with the
finding of a note, purported to be
from a girl held captive in a shack at
Paw Paw lake, a Michigan summer
Iresort
The notet picked up on a Chicago
i street, reads:
"Hely, help, quick. When you get
this come, and rescue. Four men are
holding me prisoner in shack in
woods off Paw Paw lake. They are
keeping me almost naked."
A squad of deputy sheriffs scoured
the woods near the resort yesterday
without discovering the girl or shack.
Stni the hoax theory is not given
credence. The same crime has been
committed recently at the resort.
1 CHARGED WITH KILLING GIRL-
KILLS HIMSELF
South Bend, Ind., Aug. 16. Silas
N. Ebersole, 60, former Dunkard min
ister, committed suicide in the jail
here today. He was charged with the
murder of 15-year-old Hazel Macklin,
whose body was found in a vault in
a park near here nearly a year ago.
She had been strangled to death.
Ebersole hanged himself in his celL
Police today declared he probably
was insane. Since the Macklin girl's
death he, has mentioned her name
many times and his actions about the
farm have been peculiar.
The police had woven about Eber
sole a network of evidence which,
though circumstantial, was consid
ered by them to be conclusive. Con
trary to reports that he would prob
ably confess, Ebersole maintained his
innocence until his death. He issued
a written statement declaring him
self innocent
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CARRANZA TO LET THE PEACE
APPEAL GO THROUGH
Washington, Aug. 16. General
Carranza will permit the Pan-American
peace appeal's, delivery to his
military and civil commanders.
American Diplomatic Agent Par
ker, Mexico City, notified the state
department to this effect today.
Parker said General Gonzales, Car
ranzista commander in the capital
had even offered to facilitate delivery
by furnishing safe conducts to mes
sengers. Nevertheless there was some delay
in the issuance of these safe con
ducts. Consequently many faction
al leaders were still unserved with
copies of the appeal.
Generals Carranza and Villa had
received theirs, however. From them,
at least, prompt responses were ex
pected. o o
Sinnemahoning, Pa. Five men
killed, one injured, m explosion which
wrecked gelatin department of Aetna
Explosives Co.
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